"It's a hell of a lot easier to do a word search than to go through a stack of clippings.
Several Hewlett-Packard multifunction printers, for example, have a document-scanning option that saves the digitized results as PDF files, which take up considerably less cabinet space than a stack of clippings.
He sat at his desk beneath a large framed photograph of Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, and patted a stack of clippings, many of them newspaper editorials blaming Mr. Arafat for the bloodshed.
His father, Robert Thompson, keeps stacks of clippings from Ryan's time in the game, the stories from when he was a high school star in Maryland and his days as a Toronto Blue Jays prospect.
But who could even begin to tally the immense gains of time, access, information and overall productivity that come with the ability to toss out the stacks of clippings, stop trudging to the library and instead go online to communicate instantly with almost any part of the globe.
As a sports journalist with a tall stack of newspaper clippings on a range of college sports scandals, I could have lectured him that it was one thing for a coach to be the most popular man on campus.
In the nineties, when White was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, she would arrive in her office, a few blocks from Wall Street, early in the morning, with a stack of newspaper clippings.
Mrs. Mortimer is guileless in her desire to prove herself — she arrived for an interview with a stack of press clippings and photographs of Graymont, the large house she grew up in.
Several months later, I found a stack of newspaper clippings in my mother's bedroom dresser drawer and became familiar with how truly horrific the murders were.
"When I finally sat down to sort through my stack of magazine clippings, organizing them into subjects and backgrounds, reflecting on where they came from and how they relate to my experiences, it was like seeing each piece with a new understanding," she writes "I'd regained a sense of what I wanted to say, and how I could communicate ideas of... essentially, dystopias".
"When I finally sat down to sort through my stack of magazine clippings, organizing them into subjects and backgrounds, reflecting on where they came from and how they relate to my experiences, it was like seeing each piece with a new understanding," she writes " I'd regained a sense of what I wanted to say, and how I could communicate ideas of.. essentially, dystopias".
